SCHOOL children are picturing perfecting their percussion skills for a major concert.

Some 36 pupils from Daven Primary in Congleton are to perform at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester on February 2.

The schools concert will feature music and poems based around the children's story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Five primary schools are taking part, following which pupils will watch a production of the Roald Dahl tale in the main auditorium.

Manchester Camerata is staging the concert.

Janet and Terry Caffrey, poet in residence at the Bridgewater, are working with Daven pupils on a poem set to music.